Perhaps no Washington College student-athlete has had as varied a collegiate athletic career as Bob Appleby. Bob first stepped on a WC playing field in the fall of 1950, playing as an end on the final football team in school history. By the time he graduated in 1954, he had played six different sports.

Bob was a top-notch special teams player on the football team as a freshman before moving indoors for the winter for basketball. To fill his spring, Bob went out for the track team, running the mile. As a sophomore, Bob made cross country his fourth sport, winning a few races. He then returned to basketball in the winter and track in the spring.

In the fall of his junior year, Bob tried out for the soccer team, making the team and becoming one of its top scorers. After another season of basketball, Bob went out for his sixth sport at Washington College and landed a spot on the national powerhouse lacrosse team.

During Bob's senior year, he represented five Shoremen teams. He was named an All-South All-American in soccer, finishing as the Shoremen's second-leading scorer. At the conclusion of the soccer season, he made a cameo cross country appearance, running in the conference championships. He spent his fourth basketball season as the team's captain and lone senior. In lacrosse, he earned a starting spot in the midfield for a team that became the school's first national champions, as the Shoremen were Laurie Cox Division Co-National Champions. During a two-week layoff in the middle of the lacrosse season, Bob ran in one track meet, finishing second in the mile.

Despite all of his time playing varsity sports, Bob was active in other activities, serving as student body president, Theta Chi fraternity vice president, Wesley Club president, and treasurer for the yearbook. He played intramural softball and tennis and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa.

Bob's passion for a wide variety of experiences continued well past college. He served in the U.S. Navy before beginning a long career with DuPont. An avid basketball and racquetball player, he has been very active in the political process for 25 years and was inducted into the North Carolina Republican Hall of Fame in 2007. In addition, he has devoted 15 years to the promotion of affordable housing.

Washington College considers it an honor and privilege to induct Robert H. Appleby into its Athletic Hall of Fame on this fourth day of October, 2008.

Andrew Antonio now lives in Fort Collins, CO, and works for Hach Company as an associate product manager. He is part of our cadre of Washington Alumni Admissions Volunteers.

After graduation, Andrew started off his summer backpacking through Europe for two and a half weeks. In that span of time he visited Madrid, Barcelona, Ibiza, Rome, Prague, Berlin, Hannover, Amsterdam, and London.

After London, he met Prof. Joseph Prud'homme and 13 WC students for a two-week program on Religion, Politics, and Power at Oxford University, where they spent their time using Oxford's resources (including full access to the infamous Bodleian Library!) to develop and present individual research projects (his is entitled "How the Buddhist Tradition Deals With Capitalism, Consumerism, and Materialism: Implications for the Future of Sino-Buddhist Relations.").

"Washington College really shaped who I am today, especially my role as President of the Student Government Association. It was a great way to prove that you're a leader. That's what businesses look for: people who can think critically, problem solve, and be a leader," he says.

A business management major and economics minor, Andrew is a two-term SGA President. In addition to honing his skills in public speaking and team building, he's also made an impression on Washington College's alumni.

"The more involved you are, the more access you have to our alumni network," he explains. Helping students leverage those connections is one of the best things Washington College does. Alumni want to help and they know the caliber of our students."

In fact, Andrew landed two of his three summer internships with the help of alumni. Andrew first interned for Victory Marketing in Fort Myers, Florida, a start-up run by Andrew's brother Vinny Antonio '04, also a business management major. As a brand ambassador, Andrew worked a 20-city tour for Burt's Bees skin care products. "It was an invaluable experience, and Vinny was a pretty darn good boss!"

After his sophomore year, Andrew interned for iMany, a Philadelphia-based software company that serves the life sciences industry. As part of the re-branding team, Andrew helped transform the company's image and messaging.

In spring 2011, Andrew was accepted for an internship position at Hach in Loveland, Colorado. Hach is a subsidiary of Danaher, a Fortune 500 company run by H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., a 1985 graduate of Washington College and a member of the College's Board of Visitors and Governors. Hach manufactures analytical instruments and reagents for water quality testing and analysis.

After returning from a two-week International Business Experience course in China with Professor Terry Scout, Andrew moved to Colorado, where he enjoyed hiking and rock climbing in his free time.

"Interns are treated well at Hach," explains Andrew. "Instead of being assigned to a 'boss,' I was assigned to a sponsor, a mentor and a coach who were all expected to help me out. I worked for a business unit helping with project management, product development and positioning strategies. I was also asked to define potential markets and the 'voice of the customer' for turbidity products used in labs to measure the cloudiness and particles in liquids. We did qualitative and quantitative research; then I presented a report to management."

Ken Arnold served ten years in the USMC, 5 years with the VA, Commercial pilot with no job, odd jobs, Aviation Maintenance School then 20+ years in the field, retiring in '94 from Continental. He has four great kids, 2 girls, one a mathematician, the other a home maker, and 2 sons, one a Navy pilot and now AF instructor, the other another math guy and professional "coder." Arnold feels blessed with seven wonderful grandkids and wife, Kay.

He has been a "Westerner" since 1972, living 23 years in Colorado and the rest in the beautiful Pacific NW. A sailor since 1986, he is most happy now that he no longer owns one of those floating "thingees" that soak up all ones money. He also admits that he finally kicked the motorcycle habit after 41 years of riding.

Dr. Charles Andrews is a Nephrologist for Dialysis Associates and is the founding physician and Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Texas Health Fort Worth. He has an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He and his wife, Terri Andrews '74, are members of the George Washington Society and reside in Fort Worth, TX.

I went back to Cape May after graduation to organize a search in the real world for a job as a chemist. Much to my dismay, I discovered that many jobs in that field were located near big cities or in industrialized areas and I knew that wasn't the kind of place where I wanted to live. While I pondered my options, I honed my iron-on tee shirt transfer skills at The Shirt Factory while listening to Jimmy Buffett on the 8 track. When the summer was near the end, and the good beach days were becoming numbered, I was drawn back to the Eastern Shore.

On my way through Chestertown I heard that there was an opening for a QC chemist at LaMotte Company – a small manufacturing company that is right down the street from the college and employs many fine WC graduates. I went for an interview and they asked me if I could start in three days. Yikes! I found an apartment on the river and, as the saying goes, the rest was history. After a few years I moved into the R&D department and added technical writing to my job description – especially for the education market.

I quickly became immersed in the community and decided that Chestertown is a wonderful place to call home AND go to college. And I have relatives in Cape May and Florida in case I need a dose of the beach!

My goal as your class correspondent is to let you know what is happening around the WC campus and what is new since we graduated. If you have any questions – just ask. If you haven't been back to Chestertown in a while – stop by and see for yourself. It's a nice place!

Early in her undergraduate career, Marissa Babnew '10 discovered her passion. With her first tour of the labs in the psychology department, she says, she "fell in love with neuroscience." Her coursework and lab experiences helped her secure a job right after college with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.

As a freshman, Marissa assisted a senior psychology major with her thesis, which helped her learn to use all the equipment and technology available at the College.

The field of neuroscience resonated for Marissa on a personal level. Her grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's. Her senior thesis focused on the potential link between traumatic brain injury and the onset of Alzheimer's, and the effectiveness of using progesterone as a treatment.

To explore the potential links and treatment options, Marissa used a special device to simulate the effects of traumatic injury to rats' brains. She then put the rats through several tests and analyzed the effects on their brain tissue, noting differences in rats of different ages and progesterone levels.

She believes similar studies will lead to more effective treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

"There are about 91 drugs in clinical trials, so that's really promising," Marissa said. "There are a lot of advances being made and that's why it's so interesting to be in the field at this time."

Linda Ayres '69 is part of our cadre of Washington Alumni Admissions Volunteers.

She has worked in art museums and other cultural institutions for more than thirty years. She most recently was Associate Director of Mount Vernon where she built a new museum of fine and decorative arts.

Prior to Mount Vernon, Linda served as Chief of the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, Deputy Director of the Wadsworth Athenuem, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum, Assistant Curator of American Art at the National Gallery of Art, and Assistant to the Director at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. She has presented lectures at art museums around the country, organized numerous exhibitions, and is the author or co-author of many publications on American art.

Linda holds a B.A. from Washington College, with a major in Humanities, and an M.A. in Art History from Tufts University. She is a member of the 1782 Society.

Nouria Bah '11 has traveled the globe—literally—in pursuit of her anthropology major and ethnomusicology minor. It began with a study abroad program in South Africa and culminated in a prestigious internship at Smithsonian Folkways in Washington, DC.

Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States. Nouria is working within Folkway's mission: "supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound."

"There's a vast amount of music at Smithsonian Folkways, and I'm learning how the staff has used what they love in their work—and how to apply my love of ethnomusicology to the real world," says Nouria. "It's opening up a lot of doors for me."

Nouria worked with the college's Career Center and applied for the internship with help from Professor Jonathan McCollum, assistant professor of music, who has consulted for Smithsonian Folkways.

As an intern, Nouria works directly with the marketing, sales and online teams, as well as with the associate director on projects related to licensing and royalties. "Marketing has included sending out promo CDs, writing abstracts plus archiving and documenting track names," Nouria explains.

Preparing for "Muslim World Music Day" has allowed her to access databases for a live online collaborative program with libraries, cultural organizations, collectors, fans, scholars, artists and the recording industry. The goal is to catalog and celebrate Muslim music.

"This internship at Smithsonian Folkways has introduced me to career opportunities related to cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology," Nouria says.

Nouria's interest in music and international relations first led her to a Washington College exchange program at Rhodes University in South Africa where she studied anthropology and ethnomusicology her sophomore year.

As a junior, Nouria traveled to Peru for a month-long summer program, "Ethnomusicology and Andean Cultural Project," where she studied the changing use of instruments and electronics in three distinct cultural-geographical areas of that country.

Finally, she chose to study the prominence of hip-hop through artists, producers and fans in Senegal, Africa (where her parents had relocated) for her Senior Capstone project, entitled "The Effects of Colonization & Globalization on Hip-Hop in Senegal."

From Africa to her latest internship, Nouria has learned she can go almost anywhere from here.

Owen Bailey is a writer, but mostly a reader. He holds a B.A. in American Studies from Washington College, having been a transfer student from Western Maryland College. The runner-up in the Upper-Shore Poetry contest, Bailey is interested in creative writing and has completed his M.A. in English at Washington College. His literary interests are 19th century American and British novels, short stories, Gothic Literature and Young Adult fiction. Since 2012, he has been the Chair of the Chestertown Book Festival Committee. His work has appeared in The Metric. He serves as Sales Representative for the Literary House Press.

Binnie retired after 42 years as Senior Manager of the Department of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University.

She married Stan Bailey, WC '59, and they have two sons, Stan III and Ryan (Chip), WC '88, and are the proud grandparents of Ryan, Maura, and Virginia. Her interests include most sports, but especially the Ravens, Orioles and lacrosse, the beach, reading, bridge, and antiques. She enjoys sailing on tall ships, and her two favorite cruises were to the Antigua Regatta and, in 2007, sailing through the Panama Canal with stops on the way in Barbados, Curacao, Venezuela and Columbia. She was a volunteer for Chessie Racing during the Whitbread Round the World Sailboat Race, and the Volvo Ocean Races during the two Baltimore stopovers. Since her retirement she has taken courses in water colors, finance, World War II, D-Day, and Genealogy.

Since Graduation:
I retired in 2005 after spending 40 years as a writer, editor and creative director, in locales as scattered as West Virginia, Dallas, Cape Cod, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. I finally settled in California, following my two daughters west–and have been thrilled to watch my four grandchildren–three girls and a boy–growing up. After freelancing as a writer/editor for a few years after retirement, I've now given that up in favor of plain fun–painting, traveling, and volunteering for causes dear to my heart.

Dr. Mark Awantang is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in the hand and upper extremity.

A former member of the hand and upper extremity surgery team at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC, Mark has joined an orthopedics practice in Panama City, FL. A graduate of Wright State School of Medicine in Ohio, Mark was also previously on the medical staff at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinsburg, WV, where he practiced general orthopedics and hand surgery.

He is one of 8 physicians practicing at Southern Orthopedic Specialists.

Edward L. Athey '47, a native of Moundsville, West Virginia, attended high school in Cumberland, Maryland and began college at Frostburg before transferring to Washington College. A successful student and versatile athlete, he distinguished himself as a quarterback in football, guard on the championship basketball team of 1942-43 and an outfielder on the baseball team. World War II interrupted his collegiate career while he served with the rank of captain in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot. After his discharge, Ed returned to Washington College completing his A.B. degree in June 1947. At commencement he was awarded the Gold Pentagon, Clark-Porter Character medal and was named best all around athlete.

Ed attended Columbia University where he earned his Master's Degree in June 1948. In the fall he was appointed coach of the Washington College basketball team. His induction into the Hall of Fame marks his 34th year as a member of the Washington College faculty. During his career, he coached basketball fifteen years, was assistant and later head coach of baseball spanning twenty-one years, and distinguished himself as soccer coach from 1949 through 1981. Occasionally, he also coached track, tennis and cross country.

As director of athletics for many years, Ed has actively promoted the image of Washington College among associates throughout collegiate athletics. Twice, he was elected president of the Mason-Dioxin Conference and the Middle Atlantic Conference. He is a past president of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association and for the past eleven year's has been secretary of the Association. Ed is admired both for his enthusiasm for the college and for his service to the community. He devotes much constructive energy to the work of the Lions Club and as a member of the administrative board of his church. He also continues to excel in recreational sports both on and off the campus.

Edward L. Athey, whose talents are evident as coach, sports enthusiast and family man, is by his fine example, deserving of his place in the Washington College Hall of Fame.

Charles R. Athey is an associate attorney with the law practice of Charles T. Capute LLC, in Easton, Maryland. Prior to joining Charles T. Capute LLC, Charlie practiced law in Washington, DC, and on the Eastern Shore as both a private attorney and a prosecutor. His practice now focuses exclusively on estates, trusts, and wealth preservation.

Charlie sits on the Board of the Garfield Center for the Arts Foundation, the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy and the Sultana Education Foundation. Charlie graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Drama before attending the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he received his J.D., and where he is currently pursuing his LL.M. in taxation. He has served Washington College as an admissions counselor, Assistant Director of Admissions, co-chair of the Washington, DC, Alumni Chapter, and a member of the Alumni Board. He is admitted to practice law in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and before several federal courts.

The 1992 Sophie Kerr Winner

Bio

Patrick Attenasio is the Director of Writing and Brand Voice for FutureBrand, a strategic branding, innovation and design consultancy in New York City. A resident of Brooklyn, he's finalizing a book of short stories about his neighborhood titled, "Carroll Gardens," and performs standup comedy on a (semi) regular basis.

Her first job after graduation was with the Maryland State Department of Education which satisfied a 2-year obligation to "pay back" her State scholarship. Somehow, that initial 2 years eventually turned into working in various capacities with MSDE for 32 years. She was fortunate to be in a position in later years to recruit and subsequently hire a number of WC graduates.

After retiring, she did some consulting work and has since continued to enjoy travel, volunteering, and boating (power) with her husband of 40 years.

Although she was an avid reader from an early age, she wonders if the Poly Sci requirements for news-related events influenced her lifelong habit of reading a couple of newspapers every day, various magazines, and of course, books.

Myrtie is forward to seeing all of our former classmates at the 50th Year Reunion!

Born in Turkey, Rebecca is a dual citizen with the United States. That is why she feels that it is important to foster relations with the Middle East and the West to bridge the gap between the two parts of the world, both culturally and politically.

As an International Studies Major with a concentration in the Near East and a double major in Anthropology, Washington College provided a complete education, and full experiences to explore all aspects of this field.

Literary Scientist Digs WC

One of the first Hodson Science Fellows at Washington College, Emily Aiken '10 spent her summer collecting and analyzing soil samples. The environmental studies/English major was looking for evidence that light disking is as effective—and less problematic—than prescribed burning as a potential habitat management method. Both methods are intended to help the soil hold nutrients and support species diversity.

Emily's soil chemistry work, conducted in collaboration with chemistry professor Leslie Sherman, is part of larger project underway at the Chester River Field Research Center at Chino Farms to restore former agricultural land to grassland habitat for endangered birds.

"The fields of switchgrass slated for prescribed burnings are separated by fire buffers, which are disked," explains Emily. "The scientists observed that these buffers had good species diversity, so they decided to try it in a control field, and then compare the results with those from the burned fields. The grasshopper sparrows seem to like the disked fields—we saw lots of nests there."

Emily considers her summer fieldwork a prelude to other environmental opportunities that abound on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With the environment as "the big issue" in American society, the literary-minded scientist may find her niche writing about the environment.

"When I visited Washington College, the atmosphere was amazing," she recalls. "Everyone was so friendly and accepting. I thought to myself, yeah, I could live here for four years. WC has this really good English program and it also has the Chester River. The professors have connections to all these great places. It seemed like the perfect school for me."

Following her graduation as a political science major in 2004, Minety Abraham entered the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a master's degree in International Affairs with a concentration in Intelligence Studies.

In this rigorous program, she spent a semester in Washington, DC, where she worked full-time at the State Department, and also interned with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which is where she works today.

As a GAO analyst, she has had the opportunity to review the efficiency of several government programs, including the U.S. foreign military financing to Egypt, alien detention in the U.S., the U.S. Armed Forces conscientious objector process, and foreign military sales to Iraq. Her work allows her to collaborate with agency officials at all levels of government in order to improve efficiency and to provide fact-based, timely, and objective products to Congressional clients.

Minety credits her success, in part, to her start at Washington College, where she notes that the Political Science major offered a variety of courses that allowed her to develop critical skills she uses in her current job. She also notes that the faculty were essential to her academic development: "I love that my professors were available to counsel me on critical decisions such as selecting a capstone topic and deciding on which graduate school to attend. I appreciate that they really care about their students and wanted them to succeed, and helped them to do so." She also appreciated the learning opportunities provided by the department outside of the classroom, such as model programs, conferences, internships and the exposure to prominent practitioners in the field. "Overall," reports Minety, "all of these opportunities enriched my experience at Washington College and helped prepare me for a career in public service."

Minety encourages political science students at WAC to develop their communication skills—both written and oral—and to take advantage of the ample opportunities provided by the department and the college to develop core competencies. She says, "Before you graduate from WAC, I challenge you to study abroad, volunteer with a local service organization, learn or enhance your foreign language skills and complete an internship. Finally, join one of the model organizations—it will definitely improve your oral communication and negotiation skills!"

Bonnie Abrams Travieso has had a solo practice in Baltimore since April 1, 2002, having practiced at Gallagher, Evelius & Jones, LLP for almost twenty years and heading its Estates and Trusts practice.She focuses her practice on estate planning, planned charitable giving and the administration of estates and trusts.

Prior to entering private practice, Bonnie served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Maryland Attorney General's Office where she was the Counsel to the Clerks of the Circuit Courts, the Registers of Wills, and the Orphans' Courts. This experience and her over twenty-five years in private practice have allowed her to develop expertise in the areas of estate and trust planning and administration.

Bonnie graduated from University of Maryland Law School cum laude where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. She has a Masters of Tax degree from Georgetown University. Immediately following her graduation from law school she was a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas Hunter Lowe (another Washington College graduate) on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.

A graduate of Washington College and the University of Delaware, Associate Professor Amick has taught math at Washington College since 1990. Prior to joining the Washington College faculty she was a member of the faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania for fourteen years. She received the Lindback Award fort Distinguished Teaching at Lincoln University in 1982 and the Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching at Washington College in 1995. She has been listed in multiple editions of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Prof. Amick is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She has made numerous presentations at conferences sponsored by all three organizations and has published nine articles in mathematics and mathematics education journals. Her recent research focuses on incorporating writing into math courses.

Prof. Amick chaired the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2008. She served as the elected Faculty Representative to the Board of Visitors and Governors for nine years from 2001 to 2010. Having served on and chaired a variety of campus committees, she is currently serving as Faculty Moderator and as a member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee.

I always credit my liberal arts education with making me really good at connecting things that don't seem to have any relation at first look, and at finding the bit of any job or project that interests me.

I currently work on digital content in financial services, which isn't really my first choice of industry (I'm more of an arts/non-profit lady), but I've been able to create projects for myself there that interest me even when the content I'm working with is something I have very little passion for. I think a liberal arts education makes you incredibly creative and adaptable, and with the way the job market is right now, that is a great asset not only to your paycheck but perhaps, more importantly, your sanity. I know I'm definitely a lot happier when I'm able to find a way to connect to something.

Who was your favorite faculty/staff member? Story?

It's impossible and unfair to make me pick just one.

I remember deciding I was definitely going to be a Drama major when my first CNW class was taught by the three wise men (Dale, Jason and TM). They are all so incredibly different but complement each other perfectly. Working with them together or on their own was always hilarious, motivating, and occasionally life-affirming. Polly's ever-present cookies, Michele Volansky's on-point life AND stage advice, Larry teaching me pretty much everything I know about putting things together, taking them apart, and not dismembering myself in the process. Christine Wade being such a rockstar that she made me enjoy political science, which I thought was impossible. Donald McColl's undying enthusiasm making me wish I'd started Art History courses way earlier. Bennett Lamond's LEGENDARY Chaucer class. The Gillins fearlessly leading us up mountains. Impressing Bob Day enough to get one of his ties. Corey Olsen's tremendous sense of fun (jousting and medieval feasts!) I could go on for ages. I loved them all!

What is your favorite Washington College memory?

Again, there are so, so many, but here are a few:

Living in Middle Hall was like one big crazy excellent family. Picnics on the porch, making impromptu videos about King Arthur in the hallway in the middle of the night, and everyone just hanging out with their doors open all the time.

A particularly great day that stands out is when Prof Olsen hosted an all-day marathon of the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movies in Smith, we had food from all over Chestertown brought in between every disc, and then when it was all over, I had to go to strike for Death of a Salesman which was the Drama Department production for the semester, so all the majors and minors were there and then there was of course, a party when we were finally finished. It was a super long day but full of great fun and good work and celebration.

Another thing I always miss so much is going to Andy's for drinks with a bunch of people. It really was the greatest college town bar in the universe. Amazing food, the best bartenders, and that popcorn machine!

A CES Fellow from 2009-2011, Amanda worked with the Center for Environment & Society first as a Recycling Assistant and then an intern focused on video editing.

She has done a variety of tasks for the Center, including grant research and applications, blogging, and submitting newspaper articles about CES and recycling to the Elm. She also created short promotional videos out of Chesapeake Semester footage.

Amanda is an Environmental Studies major and is active in a variety of clubs and organizations on campus, including E.R.O.S. Alliance, Women's Rugby, the Student Environmental Alliance, and Trap and Skeet. She also writes for the Elm on an irregular basis and has produced videos for College Relations.

Michele is a member of the Classes & Reunions Committee of the Alumni Board.

Upon graduating, Michele entered the employment world to "climb the corporate ladder." After tiring from the climb and realizing it did not fulfill her soul's desire, she took the "leap of faith" and left that corporate world to pursue her passion of empowering others through her life-coaching business.

She and her husband—her college sweetheart Sean Anderson '91, are a life-coaching team. Michele and Sean host workshops, retreats and discussion groups for adults through their Meet-up Groups: For All Seasons Life Adventures and Sex, Love & Relationships.

Another passion of hers is the mind/body/spirit connection and exploring holistic, alternative healing modalities. As such, she launched and currently manages an online holistic directory for the Delaware-area, WholisticLivingGuide.com, which also has a Meetup Group called the Wholistic Living Social Network.

You can read more about Michele at their website www.ForAllSeasonsLifeCoaching.com and can connect with her on Facebook.

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Married Shelley in 1994. We are raising three children; Kiana 16, Steven 14 and Kevin 11. After a wonderful seven years in Vermont we have returned to Rhode Island where we enjoy Narragansett Bay, Ice Hockey and running.

"Our Saxophone Quartet is really cool. This is my first time playing in a quartet setting," notes Harris Allgeier `14, a double major in English and drama.

"We play a wide range of fun and technically challenging music – from quartet adaptations of popular music to more refined pieces, and we perform in Hotchkiss Recital Hall. I've played the saxophone since the age of 12," explains the Maryland native.

"Last year Kenneth Schweitzer (Assistant Professor of Music) approached me to join the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo. Ken's a good professor and he also knows what he wants from the groups." Harris plans to take Music Technology with Schweitzer in the new Keyboard and Technology Laboratory where student compositions are created in the Gibson Center for the Arts.

"I don't have enough time to do all the things I like to do; besides playing the sax, I like to act and write," says Harris. He added Drama to his double major when Dale Daigle, Associate Professor of Drama, chose him as an ensemble cast member. His freshman year he starred in two senior thesis productions: Sam Shepard's True West and Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs.

As a sophomore, Harris has worked with playwright Robert Earl Price, Washington College Lecturer in Creative Writing and Drama on the world premier drama All Blues. "He trained the cast in their parts and took us to Atlanta to perform in a professional theater. Then we worked with a professional cast and handed off the play – it was an incredible experience," recalls Harris.

Academically speaking, he is taking a playwriting class as well as working for Michele Volansky, Chair of the Drama Department.

Revitalizing the student-run drama group, "Fakespeare," has been another big project for Harris. He pulled together an interested group of writers and actors who are busy developing a "big night of sketch comedy" for the spring entitled "Nowhere Near Broadway."

Harris is exploring his other passion in the Creative Writing Workshop taught by author Robert Mooney, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing. "My immediate goal is to 'shoot for the stars' – I would like to compete for the Sophie Kerr Prize for writing," says Harris, reflecting on the largest undergraduate prize in the U.S. for a senior who demonstrates promising literary instincts.

"After I graduate, I want to continue writing short fiction; I'd love to teach English and make a difference."

After receiving his commission as a Lieutenant in the Marines at graduation Bob served on active duty for six years as a pilot. In July of 1966 Bob joined United Airlines and, over the next thirty-one years flew to most of the states, Central and South America and Europe in seven different airliners.

On Bob's final trip at the end of August 1997 he flew a Boeing 777 from Washington Dulles to Paris to San Francisco to Paris to Dulles. Classmate and wife since senior year, Jane Smith Aldridge joined him in San Francisco to fly the legs to Paris and home. In 1988 Bob and Jane moved to Leonardtown in St. Mary's County Maryland where they built a home on the shores of Breton Bay. After retirement, Bob became involved with the historic Sotterley Plantation where he volunteered in the garden and as a tour guide. Bob served as the Co-Chair of the Sotterley Garden Guild for several years and through that activity became a Maryland Extension Service Master Gardener. In 2006 Bob was asked to join the Sotterley Board of Trustees. Other activities include golf (with a very small "g"), boating, photography, entertaining his two daughters and three grandchildren and lots and lots of travel.

In December of 2009 Jane and Bob celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Before matriculating to Washington College in 1987, Carole Reece Albright was an outstanding athlete at Pocomoke (MD) High School, where she participated in both field hockey and lacrosse. She was selected in field hockey to the All Bayside All-Conference Team.

At Washington College, this high school star was one of the early pioneers of the field hockey and lacrosse programs as women's varsity athletics struggled for recognition. During her time on campus, both programs became recognized as strong competitors and many of the participants on these teams were recognized for post-season honors.

Carole earned eight varsity letters, four in each sport, while playing for the Maroon and Black. It was in field hockey, however, that she had her greater success. She was an outstanding right wing in field hockey and played center/attack wing in lacrosse.

Over the four-year span of her competition, she emerged as the all-time scorer in the field hockey program and was a major contributor to the team's success. She was selected to the U.S. Field Hockey Association Tournament in each of her four years. She also was named a second team South Region All-American in 1988 and took part in the USFHA national tournament in Irvine, California. She was selected as co-captain of the field hockey team in 1990 and as co-captain of the lacrosse team in 1988.

Carole was equally successful off the field. A Dean's List student majoring in political science, she was a resident assistant and served on the Faculty-Athletic Committee, the Athletic Advisory Council, and the Campus Judiciary Committee.

Carole earned her law degree at Wake Forest University Law School, receiving the Academic and Character Award at graduation. In addition to her work as a family law attorney, Carole teaches at the Guilford Technical Community College, where she won the institution's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Washington College is honored and proud to induct Carole Reece Albright into the Washington College Athletic Hall of Fame on this 6th day of October, 2001.

Rob Alexander turned his senior thesis, exploring how American changed from an industrial to a service economy, into a multi-million dollar business.

RMA Worldwide has served the transportation industry for more than twenty years with its fleet of sedans, SUVs, limousines, vans and buses. With more than 120 vehicles in its fleet, RMA provides transportation services throughout the Washington metro area as well as anywhere one might travel in the world.

Travis Allen graduated from Washington College in 1999 with B.A. in Theatre, after working on (or appearing in) over 30 WAC drama productions. And he hasn't been on stage since.

Instead, he used the skills that he honed at Washington College to further a career in marketing, specifically working within the licensed toy industry. In the past 10 years, Travis has served as the Marketing Director (and sometimes spokesperson) for several consumer products companies. He has had the good fortune to work with such iconic pop culture properties as Star Wars, Star Trek, Sesame Street, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alien, Predator, James Bond, Walt Disney Classics, The Muppets (his personal favorite), and many more. (You might have actually seen Travis throughout 2006 and 2007, selling Lightsabers on the Home Shopping Network!)

Travis was thrilled to co-chair the 2010 Drama Alumni production—both to reunite with his friends, and to get back on stage. He hopes the reunion will serve not as his "one last shot" at theatre, but instead, as a re-introduction to the performing arts in his life.

When we asked Bruce about why he continues to volunteer for Washington College, he explained, " Volunteering allows me to stay involved in the life of the College. It allows me to continue my relationship with professors, staff and my fellow alumni, and it gives me the opportunity to meet new members of the college community. I get a huge sense of satisfaction by staying involved, and I hope my involvement has a positive impact in some small way."

Many alumni have a personal story about how WC impacted their life. Bruce's tale is different than most because the college and the town of Chestertown impacted him throughout most of his early life. "From kindergarten through graduate school, I attended school in Chestertown. I entered Washington College as a freshman in 1990 and thus began my '15-year plan.' I graduated in 1994, and following graduation, worked in the Admissions Office and in the President's Office under John Toll and then Baird Tipson. I earned my Master's degree in 2000 and left the college for a career change in 2005. In effect, it took me 15 years to graduate, and that experience as an undergraduate, graduate student and employee gave me a unique perspective on the College. Fun stories abound from my time driving President Toll around Maryland, California and points in between, but they will go with me to the grave."